GAINESVILLE, Fla. \u2013\u00a0Ole Miss Baseball (22-11, 5-7 SEC) won its first road series over a ranked opponent since 2022 Saturday night, scoring five runs in the ninth inning to defeat No. 21 Florida 5-2 and win the rubber match on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
Cade Townsend put together his first career quality start, working a career-high six innings and allowing just one run on four hits. He struck out six batters and did not issue a walk.<\/p>\n
Townsend retired the first six batters he faced on the night, using just 22 pitches to get through the first two innings.<\/p>\n
His one blemish came in the third inning as Florida\u2019s Jacob Kendall hit a leadoff triple and came home on a wild pitch to give Florida a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n
Townsend retired the final eight batters he faced in order before his night was over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GAINESVILLE, Fla. \u2013\u00a0Ole Miss Baseball (22-11, 5-7 SEC) won its first road series over a ranked opponent since…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-220026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}